Another Quote of the Moment

"The privileging of the self, the aggrandizement of the individual--this is what our culture has become obsessed with--in politics and in Hollywood and in art and in belles letres. It is the personal that matters. The private. Memoirs and autobiographies become vehicles for writers who necessarily and inevitably become the heroes in their own narratives"

~Benjamin Alire Saenz, Elegies in Blue