If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

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

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.