To The Militant, Identity Is Everything.

Modern Discussions Of The Possibility Of Tragedy Are Not Exercises In Literary Analysis; They Are Exercises In Cultural Diagnostics, More Or Less Disguised.

No 'we' Should Be Taken For Granted When The Subject Is Looking At Other People's Pain.

Any Critic Is Entitled To Wrong Judgments, Of Course. But Certain Lapses Of Judgment Indicate The Radical Failure Of An Entire Sensibility.

When We're Afraid We Shoot. But When We're Nostalgic We Take Pictures.

Few Ever See What Is Not Already Inside Their Heads.