It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it. You feel it’s something between you and the body. You feel it’s a...

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind–the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich...

It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people...

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting...

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don’t even know it.

The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago–and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail–it’s disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They...

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.