“As if somehow irony, she recaps for Maxine, as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious weakening...”

“The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.Awesome.Maybe, but its codes all it is.”

“I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?”

“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everythings on its head, its a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction”

“And what weve been always been is?Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about whos paying for it, whos starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in t...”

“Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, stream...”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you cant go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people w...”