It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm someone who writes sentences and paragraphs. I think of the sentence - not only what it shares but, in a sense, what it looks like. I like to match words not only in a way that convey a meaning, possibly an indirect meaning, but even at times words that have a kind of visual correspondence.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.