I am a lifelong Democrat.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.

Forever isn’t long at all, Christopher, as long as I’m with you.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn’t know a thing about me, my sport – he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it’s in my head, 24/7.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The gods have become our diseases.

The more I see of life, the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

Adventures are never fun while you’re having them

My strokes just weren’t there

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.