A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Travelling with work. I went to Iceland with GMTV last year and I went to Lapland twice with Classic Gold. I also went to America with Keith Chegwin, which must have been a nightmare for the crew, as we're both hyperactive.
What you think you know versus what you actually learn.
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter