Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

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

Fiction is a branch of neurology

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

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

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.