Quote of the Day

The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.