It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.