If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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.)
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.