Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
Quentin CrispWhat better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
Quentin CrispTo my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin CrispMost men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.
Quentin CrispIn New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.
Quentin CrispI approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.
Quentin Crisp