Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.