“Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.”

“It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of "oral painting" could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. ("A Short Guide To The City")”

“The cinema is an invention without any future.”

“If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.”

“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”

“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”