In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.