The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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.
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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.
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 England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
"I've never not been famous."
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