The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.