Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.