The suburbs dream of violence.

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

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

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