I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

In England, nobody's your friend.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.