The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

Planning to write is not writing.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.