I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.