In The Deep Night Of Metaphysics, All

There Seems To Be Something In Humanity Which Will Not Bow Meekly To The Insolence Of Power.

A Socialist Is Just Someone Who Is Unable To Get Over His Or Her Astonishment That Most People Who Have Lived And Died Have Spent Lives Of Wretched, Fruitless, Unremitting Toil.

Writing Seems To Rob Me Of My Being: It Is A Second Hand Mode Of Communication, A Pallid, Mechanical Transcript Of Speech, And So Always At One Remove From My Consciousness.

Ideology... Is A Kind Of Contemporary Mythology, A Realm Which Has Purged Itself Of Ambiguity And Alternative Possibility.

I Liked Early Amis A Lot, But I Stopped Reading Him Some Time Ago. I Admire Hitchens On Literary Topics - I Think He Is Very Astute. Mcewan, I Read A Bit. But I Suppose It's More The Ideological Phenomenon That They Represent Together That Interests Me.