I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

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

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?