The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

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

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.