“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.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
― Falling Man
― Falling Man
“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”
― Cosmopolis
― Cosmopolis
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
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