Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

You got to live before you can afford to die.