What you risk reveals what you value. (p.91) - Jeanette Winterson

Here is some advice. If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches ....

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.

When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.