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

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

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.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.