David Foster Wallace

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.