Michael Conniff

“ran into two psychologists who were teaching this idea of transformational therapy”
― Sam Smith, Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players

“In the caravan that went up and down and around the burning-hot backlands”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“The philosopher Jürgen Habermas was arguably the preeminent European public intellectual of the postwar era”
― Michael Steinberger, The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State