As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

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

What is privacy if not for invading?

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

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.