The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

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.

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.

My only chance is to pretend it's a day like any other

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Introducing Tac-os! It's meat, cheese, and lettuce flavored O's in a tortilla bowl... it even makes the milk taste like tacos!

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.