The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

can only write about what bites you.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?