It Is The Fear Of Death -

Dissent Is What Rescues Democracy From A Quiet Death Behind Closed Doors.

The Figure Of The Enthusiast Who Has Just Discovered Jogging Or A New Way To Fix Tofu Can Be Said To Stand Or, More Accurately, To Tremble On The Threshold Of Conversion, As The Representative American

It Is No Accident That Banks Resemble Temples, Preferably Greek, And That The Supplicants Who Come To Perform The Rites Of Deposit And Withdrawal Instinctively Lower Their Voices Into The Registers Of Awe. Even The Most Junior Tellers Acquire Within Weeks Of Their Employment The Officiousness Of Hierophants Tending An Eternal Flame.

I Sometimes Think That The American Story Is The One About The Reading Of The Will.

If We Could Let Go Of Our Faith In Money, Who Knows What We Might Put In Its Place?