But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.