The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world..

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this ….

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out..

Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legaliz….

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddle….

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet….

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm m….

Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain leve….

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the ….

The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of….

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation news….

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud..

The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could underst….

In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of s….

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's h….

All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's….

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to t….

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant tran….

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence..

Sooner or later, everything turns into television..

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuf….