I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Quentin CrispThough intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin CrispThere are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin CrispThe message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
Quentin Crisp