I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.