I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.