Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter KirnTo apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your โCore Attachments,โ means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter KirnYou thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
Walter KirnI feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
Walter KirnThere are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.
Walter Kirn