But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.