The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic..

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regim….

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid….

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blo….

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing noth….

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right..

Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never h….

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspe….

A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll ….

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop a….

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obs….

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!.

Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You kn….

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race..

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….

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made..

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very c….

I admired anyone who could unsettle people..

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it..

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica..

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy….