Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.