Alan Bennett Children Quotations

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.