As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.