If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
