Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.