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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration, because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.