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….

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my m….

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne..

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep..

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen..

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time..

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 st….

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps..

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute….

To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drun….

You don't have to do anything..

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 E….

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency..

I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed..

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are..

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned..

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being..

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 colou….

I never saw Portsmouth by day..

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook..

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor..