The great challenge of modern politics is to reconcile the demands of identity with the requirements of liberal democracy.
The poem is not a dialogue. The poem is a monologue delivered in the presence of a witness.
I don’t chase trends. I create them.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
The writer's duty is to tell the truth, even when it is inconvenient.