As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.