Dennis Potter

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. ”

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

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ”

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. ”

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. ”

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. ”

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

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. ”

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. ”

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ”