Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

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

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

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

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.