People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam...
Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light, light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.
I want to put your voice back inside your body, where it belongs.
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.
I realized the place was awash in noise. The toneless systems, the jangle and skid of carts, the loudspeaker and coffee-making machines, the cries of children. And over it all, or under it all, a dull...
I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors. We
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
And the man and the chair went different ways.
Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt gov...
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, c...
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
He told me that I hadn't done anything yet. Hadn't lived yet. All you do is pass the time, he said.
In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal...
I know it’s thankless to be sensible in the face of someone’s primitive distrust.
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smalle...
– Como está indo o seu seminário sobre desastres de carros?– Já examinamos centenas de colisões. Carros com carros. Carros com caminhões. Caminhões com ônibus. Motos com carros. Carros com helicóptero...
Телевидение - предсмертные судороги человеческого сознания
When he died he would not end. The world would end.
What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because w...