To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.