The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I’ is Absolute

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

I guess I'm too outspoken.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.