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.

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.

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

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

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.