You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.