From one of Kenneth Williams' letters quoted in Christopher Stevens' biography:Living with someone always means a denial of self in some way and I suppose I have always known it was something I couldn't accomplish. So I've always stayed on the sidelines. Getting the pleasure vicariously. It's not wholly satisfactory but then of course no lives are...
Only in the channelling of energy – in career or in private life – does there lay the seed of hopefulness. And we can't live without hope...
All problems have to be solved eventually by oneself and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, a man is an island...
From Born Brilliant - The Life of Kenneth Williams
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