All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

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.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!