Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.