Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.