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.

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.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Always a godfather, never a god.

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