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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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