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

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

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

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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