I don’t trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you’re half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
Tough guys don’t dance. You had better believe it.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they’re trying to recapture.
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
I don’t want to retire. I’m not that good at crossword puzzles.
Culture’s worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we’re all totalitarian beasts.
Writers don’t have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
It all comes down to who does the dishes.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Love is simple to understand if you haven’t got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch, that’s all, and there isn’t any one of us that doesn’t need a crutch.
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.