To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

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

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.