in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.