When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter

'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.