Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping. - Don DeLillo

I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.