It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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

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

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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

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

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind...

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind...

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

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

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

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

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

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

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

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

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

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

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

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

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

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

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...

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

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