I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.