Irving Howe

In any creation of imaginative literature, whether it be fiction or non-fiction, the main character's life is either better or worse than mine.

I know how hard it is to be myself. It's the pin I stand on and the needle I thread.

What if we were to find that Karl Marx was right about history and that we had failed to reproduce the Greek model, which Marx called, "the childhood of human society."

We're supposed to think of our lives life a certain way, as being part of a community. But the life that joined us all and the death that makes us all separate makes that thinking impossible.

Whoever you are you look like you've just come home from work. The evening light looks good on you, your hair is brown and falls around the sides of your face. The intelligent reader will take it from here.