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

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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...

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

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 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 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...

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.