Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.