A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Hell is other people's fantasies.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.