Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers!.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.