Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

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

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.

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?

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