To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

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.

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

Mary is more important than the apostles.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.