This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

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.

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

Going one step beyond the Law of Attraction when using NAPS takes us back to the original way it was invoked, before the rehashed woo-woo!

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will!

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.