Quotes on Modern Literature

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.