I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.