Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.