Paul

“When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.”
― Quentin Crisp

“You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.”
― Quentin Crisp

“You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“Even in childhood I was mad about men in uniform.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant