The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination,…

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does...

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does...

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in...

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in...

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

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...

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

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's...

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's...

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality....

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality....

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow...

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow...

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung...

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung...

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!