The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

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

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

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

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?

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?