"I heard it or I read it or I saw it somewhere, I don’t remember where, but it was a writer, I think, and they said that when it comes to art and literature you’re either an individuals person or an ideologies person—you’re compelled by artworks that deal in the microcosmic, the personal and the acutely interpersonal, or you’re compelled by artworks that are more sweeping, and serve as macro-analyses or exegeses of the political, social, and cultural gravities that move everybody’s lives."

- Ed Smith, "Ideologies Kinda Feller," Bullet Points, September '24