"I think cycling is a sport where you cannot be discouraged easily you have to keep going back at it. The first few times you race or try to get into the sport there is a good chance you might find yourself off the back."

“What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?”

Source : Avram Davidson (2011). “The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection”, p.560, Macmillan

“China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.”

Source : "Home truths from the exile". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

“That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1933.

“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”

“Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?”

“No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.”

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.”