You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

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

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

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

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.