Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.