I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.