208 Quotes by Will Self

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.