• Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

    E. L. Doctorow: Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
    E.L. Doctorow (2008). “Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006”, p.70, Random House