I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was ….

I've never not been famous..

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms ag….

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should ….

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt an….

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to..

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles….

Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, dec….

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….

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police..

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing..

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet tea….

I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it….

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be cl….

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a nat….

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice..

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now ….

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying on….

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way..

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at ….

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by ….