I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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 knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

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