Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy - Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel—and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?—is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.