In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

All human existence is a trick of light.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.