Beauty Is Only Skin Deep; Ugliness Goes

There Is No Trajectory So Pathetic As That Of An Artist In Decline.

The Majority Of American Writers Today Have Chosen Passive Non-resistance To Things As They Are, Producing Sloughs Of Poetry About Their Personal Angst And Anomie, Cascades Of Short Stories And Rivers Of Novels Obsessed With The Nuances Of Domestic Relationships - Suburban Hanky-panky - Chic Boutique Shopping Mall Literary Soap Opera. When They Do Speak Out On Matters Of Controversy They Attack Not The Evils Of Our Time But Fellow Writers Who May Insist On Complaining.

Humans Were Free Before The Word Freedom Became Necessary.

How Could Anything Non-controversial Be Of Intellectual Interest To Grown-ups?

Critics Are Like Ticks On A Dog Or Tits On A Motor: Ornamental But Dysfunctional.