As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.