If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere too.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for...
If you realize that all things change there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying there is nothing you cannot achieve.
