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

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.

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.

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.

dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.

The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.- Leslie

You must do much work to fulfill your dream.

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.

It’s not easy to be God.

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough