Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

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

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

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

I might be old, but I'm still desirable.