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.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

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

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.