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

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.