My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

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 more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.