Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

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.

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

You wouldn't take me to be a Skrillex fan, but honestly, when I'm at his shows, I get high and liquored up, and I just go in the crowd and start raving.

It's your life, live it your way.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.