I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.