For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. Crash (1973)
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. Crash (1973)
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. Crash (1973)
In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous auto disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant. Crash (1973)
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. Crash (1973)
After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years. Crash (1973)