Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like minded, the fellow afflicted.

Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa.

That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Digital clocks took the space out of time.

Fear is self awareness raised to a higher level.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

The truth of the world is exhausting.

People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. These things make the past seem permanent. A baseball signed by a famous player, long dead. A simple coffee mug. Things we trust. They tell an important story. A person’s life, all those who entered and left, there’s a depth, a richness.

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages.

You don’t know the connection? You don’t know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?