you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.