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.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

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

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

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

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.