The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.