Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. Alan Bennett (1934 - ____) English dramatist, actor In Independent on Sunday, 27 January 1991.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
We started trying to set up a small anarchist community, but the people wouldn't obey the rules.
