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

Technology and violence are interdependent.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. 
He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. 
This is one of the essential images in American mythology.

All human existence is a trick of light.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Facts are lonely things.