People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

- Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

- Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

- Dennis Potter

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

Everything we do has consequences.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

- Dennis Potter

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.

- 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.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

Metaphor is embodied in language.

- Dennis Potter

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

- Dennis Potter

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

- Dennis Potter