Dennis Potter

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”

“We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.”

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

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

“A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.”

“Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.”

“Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.”

“Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.”

“The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?”

“The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.”