I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.
We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.
Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.
Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.
I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.
My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.
I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.