Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.