There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

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

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

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.