It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.