Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails