“The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.”

“A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.”

“Today’s mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.”

“It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.”

“What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.”

“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”