It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin CrispThe British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin CrispThe message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
Quentin CrispI learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
Quentin Crisp