Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

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.

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

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!