Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh..

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor..

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it..

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty..

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse..

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not tha….

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that..

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac..

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy..

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH..

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….

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all..

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

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?.

What is privacy if not for invading?.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he res….

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 pas….

I never really found out what love was..

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….

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style..