People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.