The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

I go wherever my fare is paid.