Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
E. L. DoctorowMy memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
E. L. DoctorowThe theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
E. L. DoctorowChildren have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
E. L. Doctorow