I'm a born - again atheist.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.