His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.