All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

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

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

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.