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

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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...

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...

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

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

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.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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...

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

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

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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

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

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....

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...

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.

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...

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

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.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...