I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

The good thing about getting older is that as you become less attractive so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Example is the best precept.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Things have to be believable not in a literal photographic sense but in an emotional sense capturing the essence of the situation.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I have to have routine check-ups every three to six months. While the cardiologists think I can compete, there is no problem. I didn't consider quitting. Once the cardiologists said I could run, I decided to fight.

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.

It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.