Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

What urge will save us now that sex won't?

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.