There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.