Television’s Mr. Filth: that’s me.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination.

Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe.

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.

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

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.

As adults, we do know more, but we don’t know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn’t know you knew.

You just don’t know writers. They’ll use anything, anybody. They’ll eat their young.

God, I’m such a lazy writer – I can’t even think up new names.