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..

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..

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us..

I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years..

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

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America..

When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that'….

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..

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there i….

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 never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rai….

I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly..

Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simpl….

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….

This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange pers….

[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, i….

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write..

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine..