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.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

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.

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.

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

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