“I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.” — Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.