Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
The point of books is to combat loneliness.
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.