For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp
Writer

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

Quentin Crisp
Writer

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Quentin Crisp
Writer

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

Quentin Crisp
Writer

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Quentin Crisp
Writer

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Quentin Crisp
Writer

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

Quentin Crisp
Writer

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

Quentin Crisp
Writer

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 the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Quentin Crisp
Writer

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp
Writer