I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.