It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.