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

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

- Dennis Potter

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

- Dennis Potter

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

- Dennis Potter

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

- Dennis Potter

Everything we do has consequences.

- 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

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

- Dennis Potter