As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

A random act of violence, " his mother called it. "A totally senseless thing." Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.