I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness. - Don Paterson

Postmodernism will soon be confirmed as the American academic orthodoxy because it permits, ultimately, the summary dismissal of that last great inconvenience to the free and democratic intellect: the primary text.

In the end, the desolate age always turns instinctively to Classicism, which if nothing else legislates against certain kinds of disappointment.

I’m always amused by those commentators who nervously insist that the working class’s constant use of the word fuck is really just “a form of punctuation.” It is, however, no more or less then what they dread: an inexhaustible river of smelted wrath, a Phlegethon of ancestral grievance.