America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

What is privacy if not for invading?

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

I never really found out what love was.