Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.