Metaphor is embodied in language.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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 strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?