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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actor...more

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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choo...more

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

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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

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Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

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...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient e...more