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
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. – 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
I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself. – 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 thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one’s own imagination. – 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
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
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
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. – Dennis Potter