Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

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

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.