If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Different is not wrong.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.