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

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!

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.