I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Quote by Dennis Potter

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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

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.

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...

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...

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

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.

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.

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

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

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...

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

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

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 thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

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...

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

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.

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.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...