I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.