I've never been baptised.

I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a…

— Quentin S. Crisp

This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used…

— Quentin S. Crisp

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel…

— Quentin S. Crisp

[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where…

— Quentin S. Crisp

As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know…

— Quentin S. Crisp

This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination'…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

— Quentin S. Crisp

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.

— Quentin S. Crisp