The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.