It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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 think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.