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

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.