I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.