I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.