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 loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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

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

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.