was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional good; in other words, there is infinite space for good literature.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence