Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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.

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

A man cannot own more than his heart can love.

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.