I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.