There are times when I think I've marginalized this part of me so that I feel better about it, and I realize that it is a big part of who I am : The way I think, the way I act, the way I perform. God, think of all the times that we talk about love, and write about love. It's the biggest thing we ever get to feel. And I've kept the veil on.

John Osborne

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

John Osborne

need-love writing needs

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Osborne

confidence years thinking

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

John Osborne

bisexual men world

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

John Osborne

may character men

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

John Osborne

too-much dying death

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

John Osborne

betrayal love years

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

John Osborne

positive-atheism atheism emotional

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

John Osborne

scandal london tea

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

John Osborne

censorship self fear

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

John Osborne

looking-forward past

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

John Osborne

old-buildings building architecture

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

John Osborne

rocks atheism simple

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

John Osborne

dog writing thinking

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

John Osborne

refined butchers

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

John Osborne

play people thinking

Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

John Osborne

human-beings alive humans

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

John Osborne

ultimate-questions answers easy

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

waiting

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

John Osborne

underpaid educator

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

John Osborne

triumph majority hatred