One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

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.

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.