I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.