I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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.

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

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

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

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.