The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.