[Gertrude Stein] thinks Fitzgerald will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten.

"Tell him language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam." - Technology Boy, pg.71

Ah, yes. The age of information - young lady, could you pour me another glass of Jack Daniel's? Easy on the ice - not, of course, that there has ever been any other kind of age. Information and knowledge: these are currencies that have never gone out of style." - Mr. Wednesday, pg. 30

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever---you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her.

You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all it's intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

Biographers have misconstrued Plath, becoming fixated on her psychological problems, on what Ted Hughes did to her--and on one another...In truth, Plath wanted to be wholly known. Hughes was astonished to learn that his wife had entrusted his love letters to her mother. But Aurelia Plath was not surprised, having raised nothing less than a primordial child of time, a woman who wrote for the ages and was unconcerned about her husband's petty notions of privacy.

Plath needs a new biography, one that recognizes her overwhelming desire to by a cynosure, a guiding force and focal point for modern women and men. The pressures on a woman who sees herself in such megalomaniacal terms were enormous, and understanding such pressures and her responses to them yields a fresh and startling perspective that makes Plath's writing, her marriage, and her suicide finally understandable in terms of the way we live now.

Unlike other writers of her generation, Plath realized that the worlds of high art and popular culture were converging.