White Noise

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.” I watch light climb into the rounded summits of high-altitude

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

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?

He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan.

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?

she does it now, she might not have to do it later. The more you practice something, the less likely it is to actually happen.” “That’s what the consultant

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.