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

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.