Unlike a small village, the city speaks loud and clear of history, of being the terminus of a long, cumulative process. - Yi-Fu Tuan

The ease with which a man can lose his sense of self-worth and fall into the pit of self-abasement is a deeply disturbing psychological fact. Asymmetry of power doesn’t have to be extreme for it to happen. All that is required is for it to seem implacable.

We may speak loosely of a ‘sense of time,’ but there is no such sensory organ. Time is something we experience and construct. Time is experienced--is felt--when we wait, expect, or hope.

The world feels spacious and friendly when it accommodates our desires, and cramped when it frustrates them.