Quentin Crisp is a delightful, smart and engaging man and his book is an entertaining, funny as well as tragic, insight into what it was like to be flamboyantly gay in the early part of the twentieth century. It's a fabulous story of a very brave man who stuck by his ideals and refused to be anything but who he was.
I was very fortunate to meet the man while in college. He came to Seattle for a book signing and took the time to meet with the GBLT Alliance at the University of Washington of which I was co-chair. It was such an honor and privilege to meet and dine with him. He spent the whole time asking us about our lives! When we got him to talk about himself he was humble, polite, self-effacing, and very funny. His book is the same way.