Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.
Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.