Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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.