If there's anything better, God kept it for himself. - William Gibson

If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead — chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

"I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?"