The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

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.

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

I never really found out what love was.

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

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.