I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.