The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.