I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.