Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

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.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Technology and violence are interdependent.