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I'm a radical, and I always have been.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

I am a radical.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.