People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
I am the last of Britain’s stately homos.
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
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.
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person’s survival kit.
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn’t even want the beastly thing.
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.
Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.