Sleep Is An Eight-hour Peep

Any Fool Can Write A Novel But It Takes Real Genius To Sell It.

A Widespread Taste For Pornography Means That Nature Is Alerting Us To Some Threat Of Extinction.

Put A Higher Value On Yourself. Being Hyper-realistic About Everything Is Too Simple A Get-out.

During The 1960s, The Shanghai Of My Childhood Seemed A Portent Of The Media Cities Of The Future, Dominated By Advertising And Mass Circulation Newspapers And Swept By Unpredictable Violence.

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 Onwards, Seemed Far More Open To Change And Experiment Than The Novel, Though That's Only Partly The Fault Of The Writers. There's Something About The Novel That Resists Innovation.