Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping music with friends, even thousands of songs, is evidence of a loss of perspective so astounding that it invites and deserves the derision it receives.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.