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.

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.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

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