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

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

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.

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

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.