I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.