I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab..

I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems pa….

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don….

I'm more a dog person than a cat person..

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space.".

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

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary ….

I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness,….

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products ….

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m….

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

I've never been baptised..

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my abil….

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry..

In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear..

The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. ….

She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable ….

I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively..

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

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on..