Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
“Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.”
“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”