The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing..

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write..

I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstra….

I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us ….

I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was ra….

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility..

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular….

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost..

Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting ….

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine..

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense..

I never went to church as a child. I did not ..

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and….

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk..

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms..

I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jub….

There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in som….

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour th….

I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental se….

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest..

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'..