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

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.