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

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

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.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

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?"