Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.