The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.