62 Quotes by Dennis Potter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

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