Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Books always speak of other books.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.