John Osborne

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

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

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

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

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

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.