Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.