Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams...
When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith?
What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can’t know and they can’t tell us.
What about the Americans? Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.
We’re steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools.
We're a crowd, a swarm. We think in groups, travel in armies. Armies carry the gene for self-destruction. One bomb is never enough. The blur of technology, this is where the oracles plot their wars. B...
We travel into or away from our photographs.
We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, noteven that we're all the same.
We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I
Voglio dirti una cosa che non dovresti dimenticarti mai. Se qualcuno ti dà fastidio una volta e poi un'altra e un'altra e un'altra ancora, qualcuno con delle ambizioni, qualcuno avido di territorio, l...
Você não sente às vezes um poder dentro de você?, pergunta Vollmer. Um estado extremo de saúde, sei lá. Uma saúde arrogante. É isso. Você se sente tão bem que começa a achar que é um pouco superior às...
Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
To have true socialism, he said, we first establish capitalism, totally and heartlessly, and then destroy it by degrees, bury it in the sea.
To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the terms of local abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.
This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles Olson and a Kiowa chief named Satanta. Naturally...
This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We...
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.
They know him at molecular level. He lives in them like chains of matter that determine who they are.
There’s a kind of theology at work here. The bombs are a kind of god. As his power grows, our fear naturally increases. I get as apprehensive as anyone else, maybe more so. We have too many bombs. The...