Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.