A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

The future belongs to crowds.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.