Pain is just another form of information.

The future belongs to crowds.

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

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

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.