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 ….

Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences..

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of opt….

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much ….

The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to c….

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction..

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead….

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face..

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interes….

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….

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire..

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not..

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use..

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter..

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….

Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves..

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?.

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -….

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible..

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically….

Fiction is a branch of neurology.