Can One Consider Controversy Without Falling Into

Great Writers Leave Us Not Just Their Works, But A Way Of Looking At Things.

Myth, Legend, And Ritual ... Function To Maintain A Status Quo. That Makes Them Singularly Bad In Coping With Change, Indeed Counterproductive, For Change Is The Enemy Of Myth.

The Common Impulse Is Not To Sustain A Marriage By Finding Satisfaction Elsewhere, But To End The Marriage And Set Up A New One Which Will Provide The Comfort Lacking In The First.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be. It's Wonderful To Have Someone Like That Around, You Always Feel You Can Count On Them. You Can Go Away And Come Back, You Can Change Your Mind And Your Hairdo And Your Politics, And When You Get Through Doing All These Upsetting Things, You Look Around And There They Are, Just The Way They Were, Just Being.

If One Is Going To Change Things, One Has To Make A Fuss And Catch The Eye Of The World.