He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

I never wanted to change the world. Norman Mailer wanted to, he set himself the task of changing the consciousness of our age. And I think he came pretty close, in the 1960s, to actually managing to do it. But me? No, no, I never wanted anything like that. I'm not Maileresque.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

Technology and violence are interdependent.