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

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.