Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

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

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.