I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in t...
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees i...
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
In one way, I suppose, I have been in denial for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself...
Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.
And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists...
Said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the a...
If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn'...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
[M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [...] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that hu...
Three portraits by Hans Holbein have for generations dictated the imagery of the epoch. The first shows King Henry VIII in all his swollen arrogance and finery. The second gives us Sir Thomas More, th...
The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.
How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?