The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.