All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.

I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.