I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.