Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.