Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

One person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

War has been the norm and peace the exception.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

A writer, like an athlete, must ‘train' every day. What did I do today to keep in ‘form'?

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.