The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.