Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
Quentin CrispNo effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
Quentin CrispI was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.
Quentin Crisp