I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

An education without a Bible education is no education.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.