Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.