One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.

The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms - he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole sys…

The higher paranoid scholarship is nothing if not coherent - in fact the paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world.

In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangero…

Facts are stubborn things.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against thre…

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive tr…