“Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version”

“America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.”

“The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.”

“I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”

“There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version”

“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.”