In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.