Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

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

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

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

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.