I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

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 majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.