Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

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