“I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals.”
in Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993 (2003), p. 24
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