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.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

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

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

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

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