It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

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.