I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

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.

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

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.

Planning is the process of identifying how best to use your resources to achieve your outcomes.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

We are all stronger than we can ever imagine being. Every choice matters starting with today. And today, I choose to live.

If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

I was voted most artistic in school.