Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

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

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

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

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.