That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.