The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.