Today's Baudelaires Are Hip-hop Artists.

Imagine That Human Existence Is Defined By An Ache: The Ache Of Our Not Being, Each Of Us, The Center Of The Universe; Of Our Desires Forever Outnumbering Our Means Of Satisfying Them.

If Multiculturalism Succeeds In Making Us A Nation Of Independently Empowered Tribes, Each Tribe Will Be Deprived Of The Comfort Of Victimhood And Be Forced To Confront Human Limitation For What It Is: A Fixture Of Life.

Everything He Did Was At Least Partial And Often Total Bullshit” (402).

I Don't Personally Like The E-readers They've Come Up With So Far. I Don't Fetishize Books, But I Do Like That They're Solid And Unchanging.

Mr. Franzen Said He And Mr. Wallace, Over Years Of Letters And Conversations About The Ethical Role Of The Novelist, Had Come To The Joint Conclusion That The Purpose Of Writing Fiction Was “a Way Out Of Loneliness.” (ny Times Article On The Memorial Service Of David Foster Wallace.)