The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Quentin CrispI have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
Quentin CrispWhat I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
Quentin CrispI 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.
Quentin CrispMainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
Quentin Crisp