Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.
One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign. ' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant. ' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings. '
Clothes should never be decoration. . . . whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event
I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.