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“It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.”
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“I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.”
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“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”
Source : "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013. 
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“My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.”
Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.19, Knopf
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“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”
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“Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.”
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”
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“I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.”
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“I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.”
