I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.