All in all, death is something like marriage.

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

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free!.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.

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