Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

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

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

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.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.