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

  • The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

  • The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

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

  • Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.