I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.