I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

I desire therefore I exist.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.