The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know".

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.