It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. Stephen Fry clichetrueuntrue Change image and share on social
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. Stephen Fry adoreadultapparently share on social
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. Stephen Fry bipolardescribeend share on social
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. Stephen Fry aheadawfulblackness share on social
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. Stephen Fry bodyextremelyhuman share on social
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again. Stephen Fry boatcloselymonitor share on social
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. Stephen Fry birthbookelephant Change image and share on social
Happiness is no respecter of persons. Stephen Fry happinesspersonrespecter Change image and share on social
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. Stephen Fry fullloveoctave Change image and share on social
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you. Stephen Fry emailexhaustknow Change image and share on social