A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community
Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.
Hope is a slow business.
I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.
On a serious note, we don't think we're trying to be so different, it's just that everyone else is trying to be same.