As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

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

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

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.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?