I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

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.

Those minutiae calcify into the bones of our intimacy.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul