A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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.
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises