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

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.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.

For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.