 As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. |
| It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. |
| I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. Topics: Childhood |
| Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. |
| People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. |
| 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. |
| The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. |
| Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. |
| Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. |
| Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. |
| God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. |
| The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. |
| Metaphor is embodied in language. |
| Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. |
| You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. |
| That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. |
| I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. |
| As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. |
| The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. |
| To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. |
