I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.