You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

Let's hope the first comes first.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.