Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.