He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer