When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.