Dennis Potter

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

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

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

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