"Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines"

“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.82, Atlantic Monthly Press

“But this too is true: stories can save us.”

“The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.”

“Lips are the fingerprints of love.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”

“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.”

“To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.”