His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

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

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.