Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

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

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

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?"

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.