If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney judge jury and hangman.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

I was born left-handed but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road ' which was very long I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser so later on I had to change it.

Yet it is true poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Because if one is writing novels today concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons for wasted effort.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.

Maybe it is something to do with age but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.