We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.