If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

I've never not been famous.

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.