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

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.

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

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

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Everything we do has consequences.