Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."