Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Your true self is a boundless spiritual being. You are spirit in body.

Your journey will end in an unknown planet. Fully enjoy your journey.

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.