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

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

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Are you always so cynical?’ said Angelica.’No,’ said Katherine. ‘Sometimes I’m asleep.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn’t bring forgiveness, it’s when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Mitch’s take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out...

Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has done it. He probably meant no malice – he just did not want...

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I’d throw it off a cliff.

The first rule in life is ‘everybody lies.’ Remember that and you’ll get a lot further.

Being unhappy alone isn’t all that much fun, but what’s even tougher is playing one’s part without forgetting one’s lines, coping with other people’s compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they...

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.