Hardship makes the world obscure.

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

Something lurked inside the truth.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

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.

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