The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.