Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

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.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

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

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