Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
Subversion is what I do.
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.
I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.
I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.