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
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
Religion, you cant a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they dont believe. – 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 face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James