My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.