Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.