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

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

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

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.

Recognize and beware of the snare.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Custom alone regulates morals.

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

You cannot be successful without failure.