A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear.The Daily Mirror

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.