If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.