I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.