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.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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

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.

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

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?