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..

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may ….

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all..

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny..

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent..

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody..

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality..

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in..

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!.

If you truly love me, kill the bartender..

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully e….

Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train….

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock….

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever..

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possibl….

In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than d….

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

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you..

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….

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone.".

I became one of the stately homos of England..