I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.