I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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....

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

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.

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

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

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...

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

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...