The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

I never say 'No' to anything.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.