“Things are always terriblefor some people. The questionis the ratio of the palpable hurtto the general sessionof life in an era.”
“The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.”
“If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”
“Fortune and fame," she said, "always on the horizon. And always some pitfall between you and it.""An excellent summation," I said, "of my life in particular and of the world in general.”
“What's life except for a palpable illusion?”
“That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything.”