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.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.