I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.