Tilo Wiklund

“The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“I was walking down Granville Street, Vancouver's version of "The Strip," and I was looking into one of the video arcades. I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids inside were. It was like one of those closed systems out of a Pynchon novel: a feedback loop with photons coming off the screens into the kids' eyes, neurons moving through their bodies, and electrons moving through the video game. These kids clearly believed in the space games projected. Everyone I know who works with computers seems to develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen, someplace you can't see but you know is there.”
― William Gibson

“I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

“jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
― Angela Carter