"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"

“If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.”

“A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.”

“The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.”

“The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.”

“Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.”

Source : "Jonathan Eig’s Muhammad Ali biography comes as new generation of athletes kneels in protest". www.chicagotribune.com. September 27, 2017.

“Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.”

“A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.”

“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.”

Source : Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”