Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

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.