Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook. . . I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
I don't think about the media.
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.
I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.