Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own possessions with greater care and reverence than they would to common...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

I had had a feeling of freedom because of the sudden change in my life. By comparison to what had come before, I felt immensely free. But then, once I became used to that freedom,...