I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.