America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
Quentin CrispNo effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Quentin CrispMy outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.
Quentin Crisp