Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality — Quentin Crisp

"Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it."

"If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being."

"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other."

"When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis."

"Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbours."

"At the age of ninety, it has finally been explained to me that I am not really homosexual, Im transgender. I now accept that. I no longer see myself as homosexual, though it is a word I have used to describe myself and which others have understandably used to describe me. I dont actually see myself as a man though, of course, I know Im not physically a woman. The only thing in my life I have wanted and didnt get was to be a woman. [...] I dont dress like a woman ... I think my body is too like a mans body to have lived as a woman with any kind of success. I refer to myself as homosexual without thinking because of how I have lived my life."