There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.” (on Tom Wolfe)

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.”(on Mark Twain)

Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don’t agree to accept what critics say;...

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

You couldn’t find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Some guys like to undermine a girl’s self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn’t hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”(on Ernest Hemingway

Peter to Austin:”Hard-ons don’t make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.

He’d call me false and faithless and I’ve always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they’re the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might...

We both want you dead. I’m bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”(on Lillian Hellman)

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. “Hey, Seaweed Brain.””Will you stop calling me that?”She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a good comeback. She’s the daughter of Athena,...

Those acidic insults being poured down on you are found in satan’s gallons! Watch those who tackle you for you to fall down; watch them closely. They are wearing the booths Satan invented! Don’t attack...

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial...

Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I’d only point out, though,...

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

He crouched at the care window and looked in. “What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They’re all lovely. Except for that one.” His finger jabbed the glass. “That one’s a bit...

Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions.

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick...

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.

Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.

Mutli-tools are like insults, girls – you should always have one on hand.

If someone calls you a failure it’s more than likely they feel like one.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

Valkyrie smiled patiently. “I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

Never Criticize, Condemn or Insult Anybody.Who are we to Judge ?

[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, “Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman...

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father’s knee being inducted...

She may be crazy but at least she isn’t you.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don’t listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed...

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.