Mode Quotes

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.

I’m suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.