Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

I couldn't tell you off the top of my head exactly what we put in. There was the word 'censure' in there that I didn't like, but it was obviously in there, so my objection was overrided.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.