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

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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...

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

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 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...

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...

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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...

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and...

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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.

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....

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 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.