Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

The future belongs to crowds.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.