Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.