You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

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.