It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.