Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

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.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

THE JOY OF DISCIPLINE OR THE PAIN OF REGRET, WHICH WILL IT BE TODAY?

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.