Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.