In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.