You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
Art is a form of consciousness.
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.