I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.