I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial..

[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate stayi….

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o….

I've never been baptised..

Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience th….

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a fiv….

Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in….

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the….

I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about t….

If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear exper….

When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are….

Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in v….

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest..

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult..

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating..

If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank….

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry..

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos..

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong..

I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there w….

I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began an….