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

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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 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...

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...

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

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.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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.

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...

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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...