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.
E. L. DoctorowCongress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. DoctorowIt was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
E. L. Doctorow