"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices with unflinching honesty."

The most powerful art is often the most personal.

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.

The existence of a legal system presupposes the existence of a rule of recognition.

Policy should be based on evidence, not ideology.