Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

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

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

I go wherever my fare is paid.

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'