To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

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.

If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.