Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

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.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

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

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

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

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