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...
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
