World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.