Quentin S. Crisp

I don't believe in sexual love.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I've never been baptised.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

— Quentin S. Crisp

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— 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

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“To find something truly alive these days is in itself almost shocking—as shocking as a living doll.”

— Quentin S. Crisp

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find…

— Quentin S. Crisp

In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.

— 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

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

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

— 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…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human…

— Quentin S. Crisp

What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately…

— Quentin S. Crisp

My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal?…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have children. What ambassadors, then, are…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there…

— Quentin S. Crisp

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in…

— 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

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

— 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

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Quentin S. Crisp