There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Not one word of the following is true

The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.