Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness but enables us to move back from...
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining...
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Taste refers to the past imagination to the future.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
While there's life there's fear.
Cruelty is softened by fear not pity.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media which is our culture. Professors of humanities with all their leftist fantasies have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
