Nicholas Mosley

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

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.

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.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.