Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.