Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.