That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.