"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."

"The future belongs to crowds."

"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."

"I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it."

"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

"Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave."

"He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows."

"There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?"

"The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear."