I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers...

My head is in another dimension. My feet are talking to their soles. My nose is detecting a hint of sweaty, overpumped poon. There’s a spider corpse perpetually hanging on the wall next to my...

My love is expansive. Your love is expensive.

Republican or Democrat, this nation’s affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they...

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where...

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are...

There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me...

As a result, I’ve been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

Life’s generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you’re in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy...

Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables.

The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That’s it.

Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.

When I was in the second grade, I used to think love was the feeling a man gets while riding a motorcycle and having a woman embrace him tightly from behind. Maybe I’m cynical now,...

Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel...

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Cuando haces una obra de caridad, on en mi caso de solidaridad, te sientes con derecho a ser como eres y tener lo que tienes. Ya pagaste tu impuesto, ,ajá?

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

I can’t bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Love should last a lifetime. But not the lifetime of a giant tortoise. More like the lifespan of a gastrotrich.

If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

The door is crackedWe used to meetlike water does landnonot thatmore like when skin touches skinkissing fingertipsor when air escapes a lung and is felt across the worldI’ve leapt over cracks in sidewalksand swallowed away...

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

They speak very well of you”.- “They speak very well of everybody.”- “That so bad?”- “Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

What’s good for reform is bad for the reformers

Catholics don’t believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There’s always Confession, after all.–Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.

Roses,” she thought sardonically, “All trash, m’dear.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.

I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some...

George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant...

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I’m sure you’re now aware. Any long-term relationship is – and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother...

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But love? It twists all the other things. Makes you misstep, makes...

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.””We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.