A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.