Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.