A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

The child shall become father to the man.