Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
“It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.”