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

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

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