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

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.