Manners are love in a cool climate.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face