I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.

It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.

I would have come out earlier.

Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.

To be looked at.

My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.

Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.

Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.

I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.