You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.