Stephen fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only...

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this...

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been,...

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just...