Technology and violence are interdependent.
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.