Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

What is privacy if not for invading?

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Vice is its own reward.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.