I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?