If you have one hour and you write for that whole hour, suddenly there is a book or at least part of a book, and when you have part of a book, you can always finish it.
The thing about surveillance, there's a lot of boredom in it. This was part of the attraction, I think, to becoming detectives.
Perhaps the literary community needs a lot more of the absurd, even in spades, and perhaps especially in relation to economics.
An error in the game was the realest feature. It formed a foundation. The developers thought how American. How reckless.
His resistance to canned models exposes the fragility of the sclerotic aesthetic order that reigned in his time.
The value of lived experience, an epistemological commodity I was assumed to have in quantity.
American cinema is nothing short of the dramatization of the desires and fears of an entire people.
You're a man now, I'm your blanket.
Drug-eating is now drug consumption. Where "eating" implies a loamy process of co-constitution, "consumption" is a rote expression of your identity.
There’s a good case to be made that this is the least translatable German book of the last century.
Desire renders life like a poem: it collapses space and time, it calls into focus images, sensations, new voices and forms of seeing and saying something.