Quentin S. Crisp

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

— Quentin S. Crisp

People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world…

— Quentin S. Crisp

She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I never went to church as a child. I did not .

— Quentin S. Crisp

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts…

— Quentin S. Crisp

When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than…

— Quentin S. Crisp

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time—often enough, a hypocritical waste…

— Quentin S. Crisp

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

— Quentin S. Crisp

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts…

— Quentin S. Crisp

There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the…

— Quentin S. Crisp