As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.