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.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

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

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.