Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

break the system use your imagination

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.

Listen first, then sell.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.