Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

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.

What Does Not Kill you Builds You .

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich