Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.