As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.