Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.