62 Quotes by Dennis Potter

Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values. He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

Words themselves – the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there – but please let some of the contempt be there.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in.

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

God, I’m such a lazy writer – I can’t even think up new names.

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