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.

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

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.