"The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the la…"

"You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Ev…"

"These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics."

"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television an…"

"No detail is too minor to note."

"Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Si…"

"There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife …"

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of …"

"When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them t…"

"The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home run…"