'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.
Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water.
Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.
Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.