Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.