Passion paralyzes good taste.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.