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

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

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.

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

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'