What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their d….

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctionin….

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….

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century..

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

Sooner or later, everything turns into television..

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there..

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?.

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….

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place..

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup..

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

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern ….

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….

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of t….

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

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence..

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury..

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and ton….

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace..

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….