Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.