One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!
Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.
Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.
The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Sex is the. . . tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition. . . generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.