You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.