Nicholas Mosley

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.