If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

Some people feed you with love.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.