My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

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

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

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

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.