Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

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.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.