I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.