Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
Mary McCarthyIt has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
Mary McCarthy