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

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.