Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.