What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.