Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.