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Even One's Own Home Is A Kind Of Anthology Of Advertisers, Manufacturers, Motifs And Presentation Techniques. There's Nothing 'natural' About One's Home These Days. The Furnishings, The Fabrics, The Furniture, The Appliances, The Tv, And All The Electronic Equipment - We're Living Inside Commercials.

Science Is The Ultimate Pornography, Analytic Activity Whose Main Aim Is To Isolate Objects Or Events From Their Contexts In Time And Space. This Obsession With The Specific Activity Of Quantified Functions Is What Science Shares With Pornography.

Given That External Reality Is A Fiction, The Writer's Role Is Almost Superfluous. He Does Not Need To Invent The Fiction Because It Is Already There.

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 Blowing Up An Oxfam Shop Because People Can't Understand The Motive.

All Through My Career I've Written 1,000 Words A Day - Even If I've Got A Hangover. You've Got To Discipline Yourself If You're Professional. There's No Other Way.