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)

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.