John Osborne

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.