Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

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

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.