Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.