Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.