E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime Quotes

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.