"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society." ― E. L. Doctorow Topic(s): Politics More From E. L. Doctorow "It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." "I’m not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who’s sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It’s not the way I work." "One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing." More In Politics "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness."― Anthony de Mello "Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film."― Jesse Ventura "I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn’t responsible in terms of what our country needed right then."― Claire McCaskill