Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

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

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.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.