We Don't Get Offered Crises,

Mythology Is Like Gravity, Inconvenient At Times, But Necessary For Cohesion.

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.

We Put Up With A Lot To Be Saved From Chaos. We Always Have.

Individual Advances Turn Into Social Change When Enough Of Them Occur.

Power Is Not A Thing To Be Owned. But If You Believe That It Is Such A Thing, Losing It Becomes A Possibility To Fear. That Fear, I Think, Is One Reason For The Dark Projections Of A Catastrophic Future That Are So Widespread, In Our Dual Society. The Present Powerful, Being Committed To Polarization, Expect That Any New Deal Will Overturn The One That Set Them In Authority; That The Last Shall Be First And The First Last, Role Reversal Everywhere, Men As Slaves, Women As Masters, In A Revolution Of Contradiction.