Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

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.

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.