Justin Lancy

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

A story exists in language, but lives in the imagination, in the memory. When does a story live? It lives only when it is read or heard. A story is part telling, part hearing. Part writing, part reading. It dwells in the ambiguous place between the teller and the hearer, between the writer and the reader. The greatest storytellers understand this m

An African proverb says, ‘the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth’.

The more we are asked to adapt to the biases of our machinery, the less human we become.

it is a matter of daring just as much as of technique—to expose the imbecilities of the inner mind,

“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all—oneself,” architect Louis Kahn stated. “Nobody knows his own frontiers.

I learned that the things you find the most embarrassing about yourself are the very things the public will love you for.

one sees only the struggle of the gradually awakening common people against the lords of property and their hired liars and bumsuckers.

No one is free who is not master of himself. Pythagoras