As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for...

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for...

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind...

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind...

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to...

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to...

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.