The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

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

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.