Everything we do has consequences.

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.

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

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.

Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace

It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.