I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

I never miss England.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

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

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