The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

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

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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.

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

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.

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