I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
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.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
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.
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.
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.
I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.