When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

In England, nobody's your friend.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.