You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-- Quote by Winston Churchill

 “What most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen. That we may live in a boring world, in an eventless world where nothing happens.”

- JG Ballard

 "Enjoying being insulting is a youthful corruption of power. You lose your taste for it when you realize how hard people try, how much they mind, and how long they remember."

Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche 

 It's an odd thing getting old, cos on the one hand you think "I want to make every day count" but you equally feel "I can't be arsed".  Or, "I'm so knackered". I do feel a strong impulse  - although that's not the right word, cos it sounds dynamic, it's more like a sort of a kind of prolapse of the will, this spreading swamp of apathy  -  to never do another book. Yet I also have about six or seven ideas that itch quite strongly. I suppose the point is the process of doing them, rather than some kind of time-defeating achievement.  More about being energised in the now. 

 "The return to history everywhere remarked today… is not a return exactly, seeming rather to mean incorporating the 'raw material' of history and leaving its function out, a kind of flattening and appropriation"

-- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1991

“It hurt my ears. Like being hit with a machine gun of ice cubes” - Neil Young on digital sound.