It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome...
In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.
In the afternoon I drank Coke and wrote poetry.
I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her.
I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter.
History is the angle at which realities meet.
For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.
Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?
As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its own recurrence.
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn’t begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We’re doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people...
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on...
It is time to perform, he thought. She would have to be satisfied. He would have to service her. They would make efforts to interact.
It is all falling indelibly into the past.