The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Everything we do has consequences.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
