Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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

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.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

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.