"Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it."

"Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think."

"Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced…"

"The mania for self-observation and self-admiration in literature and the view that a work is the more true and the more convincing, the more directly the author reveals himself in it, are part of the …"

"People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye."