"Literature…has no relevance to the young who were brought up on television and movies, and though they are doubtless happier for the whole experience, they are also quite unable to comprehend the doubleness of things, the unexpected paradox, the sense of yes-no with which there can be no true intelligence, no means, in fact, of examining life as opposed to letting it wash over one."

— Gore Vidal: Two sisters, 1970 p. 41.