The Democrats are evil, and they crave power. They're willing to destroy any decent man or woman to attain it.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.
- Walter Brueggemann
The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.