A Single Man

If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.

— The bathroom's just down the hall, if you'd like to take a shower.
— Aren't you taking a shower too, Sir?
— Oh, I'm fine, I'm English, we like to be cold and wet.

My mother says that lovers are like buses. You just have to wait a little while and another one comes along.

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

Minorities are just people. People like us. But a minority is only thought of as one when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority.