Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

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.

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.