I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

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)