Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.