The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.