My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.