Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

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.

I've never not been famous.

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.