Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.