Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

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.

Great God.Glorious God.Gracious God.

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

I have never been more excited than I am today about making pictures.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.