Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

We need time to lose interest in things.