The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises