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.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'