You get a sense of how genuinely provocative his work is when you see others trying to imitate him -- David Bailey went through a Newton phase and it was utterly pathetic.

In each questionnaire the subject was given a list of celebrities from the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, crime, science and the arts, and invited to devise an imaginary car crash in which one of them might die.

The great thing about Freud is that from the writer's standpoint it is an extremely useful psychology.

And I see the role of the imaginative writer as an attempt to get through this neuro-psychological construct into something closer to the truth.