It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

When our minds are on Christ, Satan has little room to maneuver.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

I know politics; I know the media.