And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

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.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.It's not the type of love that ends.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.

I fell in love with Africa while I was there.

The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.