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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.