As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

I am a regular if not exactly enthusiastic patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

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