Whenever Citizens Are Seen Routinely As Enemies

The Philosophical Conservative Is Someone Willing To Pay The Price Of Other People S Suffering For His Principles.

Good Writing Is Supposed To Evoke Sensation In The Reader - Not The Fact That It Is Raining, But The Feeling Of Being Rained Upon.

History Is The Present. That's Why Every Generation Writes It Anew. But What Most People Think Of As History Is Its End Product, Myth.

I Knew He Was Unreliable, But He Was Fun To Be With. He Was A Child’s Ideal Companion, Full Of Surprises And Happy Animal Energy. He Enjoyed Food And Drink. He Liked To Try New Things. He Brought Home Coconuts, Papayas, Mangoes, And Urged Them On Our Reluctant Conservative Selves. On Sundays He Liked To Discover New Places, Take Us On Endless Bus Or Trolley Rides To Some New Park Or Beach He Knew About. He Always Counseled Daring, In Whatever Situation, The Courage To Test The Unknown, An Instruction That Was Thematically In Opposition To My Mother’s.

Writers Are Not Just People Who Sit Down And Write. They Hazard Themselves. Every Time You Compose A Book Your Composition Of Yourself Is At Stake.