"What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information."
"At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on."
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Source: Ella Shohat, Robert Stam (2013). “Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism”, p.331, Routledge
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