Michael

“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.”
― Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

“Fiction is empathy technology.”
― Steven Pinker

“Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.”
― Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology