Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

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 hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.