Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

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.

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.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

You are almost never cool to your children.

SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.

I don't like half the folks I love.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent