I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.
I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.
I have the feeling we are the most uptight nation that ever walked this earth.
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.