I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.