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

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

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

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.

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

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

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.