Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.