I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.
It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it. . . which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.