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
Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? – Dennis Potter
Only the explorer of steep and narrow trails inaccessible to cattle makes acquaintance with flowers in a grazing country. The large scale of all the physical features of California tends to monotony of vegetable life. The same trees cover miles of country. Only those who climb find variety. – Isabella G. Oakley, “Santa Barbara of Today,” in Sunset, May 1904