Subhasish Das

“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove a toilet joke at the dinner table or around relatives. But with them it takes on moral weight. It’s a very damaging mistake: the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same as taste itself. It confuses censoriousness with a faculty of judgment that links the aesthetic to the moral sense.”
― n+ 1 Magazine

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”
― Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will

“Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.”
― Roger Cohen

“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”
― Brendan Gill