About Quentin Crisp: Quentin Crisp was an English writer and raconteur.
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
