The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

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

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

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

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)