I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.
I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.