World Is Supposed To Mean Something That's

Why Is It So Hard To Be Serious, So Easy To Be Too Serious?

Be Willing To Die For Your Beliefs, Or Computer Printouts Of Your Beliefs.

Sitting For A Picture Is Morbid Business. A Portrait Doesn't Begin To Mean Anything Until The Subject Is Dead. This Is The Whole Point. We're Doing This To Create A Kind Of Sentimental Past For People In Decades To Come. It's Their Past, Their History We're Inventing Here. And It's Not How I Look Now That Matters. It's How I'll Look In Twenty-five Years As Clothing And Faces Change, As Photographs Change. The Deeper I Pass Into Death, The More Powerful My Picture Becomes. Isn't This Why Picture-taking Is So Ceremonial? It's Like A Wake. And I'm The Actor Made Up For The Laying-out.

What Terrorists Gain, Novelists Lose.

He Said, "the Word For Moonlight Is Moonlight.