Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.
The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.
I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.