Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

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.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.