Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

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

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.

Sex times technology equals the future.

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.