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 CrispIf you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
Quentin CrispStyle, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Quentin Crisp