However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

It's a wise thing to hold back.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.