All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is...
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.