Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

Any film is at least better than real life.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'