A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

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

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.