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.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.
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.
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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.
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
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.
"I've never not been famous."
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