White Noise

“Whatever relaxes you is dangerous. If you don’t know that, I might as well be talking to the wall.”

There was a charm and a native sense to the rows of slanted vehicles. This form of parking was an indispensable part of the American townscape, even when the cars were foreign-made. The arrangement was not only practical but avoided confrontation, the sexual assault motif of front-to-back parking in teeming city streets.

How serious can it be if it happens all the time? Isn’t the definition of a serious event based on the fact that it’s not an everyday occurrence?

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

person’s entire life is the unraveling of this conflict. No wonder we’re bewildered, staggered, shattered.”

“The deepest regret is death. The only thing to face is death. This is all I think about. There’s only one issue here. I want to live.”

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

The more we learn, the more it grows. Is this some law of physics? Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. Is it a law of nature?