One should never be too tempted to attempt to kill off all those with gold stars on their T-shirts just for the cheek of wearing them, but it is still tempting.

To attack a man just takes the right opportunity, any rusty old tool that’s handy, and enough time to do a good job.

When it is required you prove you have done nothing wrong, you must be very close to being arrested for it.

Liking or disliking someone is a definitive action in time and space, and has its little permutations to encourage dissimulation of flavours amongst the crowd.

A man just has to get his antipodes right and the rest will take care of itself.

What is done in all seriousness must have had something of the comic in its makeup to be so important to be dealt with like that, in all seriousness.

It is necessary in promoting yourself to always like the sound of your own voice; and it is also an added advantage that you don’t have to listen to anybody else’s bullshit while you’re about it.

The betrayal of your interests is very much like the betrayal of your self, only that at the time you may think you can get away with it as well.

If you ask someone who’s looking at you askance why he’s doing it he’ll never tell you, but he might tell you something else easily enough.

Whatever it’s about, if it doesn’t have a touch of sexual brutishness about it, that beauteously sexy object of desire you’d rather like to pound away at misses its point.

Discourtesy that is uncensored is unwise; especially so when there’s no real reason for it. Picked over it mostly becomes crass stupidity.

Trust only those who you can trust and don’t make the mistake of trusting those who you can’t trust but look jolly friendly.

Individual freedom is always under someone’s control, however you may not notice whose until you’re told what to do with it.

Someone of whom you can say: “He knows his own mind,” may just say in response: “That’s what you think!” And he might be right too.

Some people like to check you out before putting you down, but the exquisite bit is still putting you down.

Those who don’t know their place must then be taught it, as frequently and as forcefully as is necessary.

The one who protects something always has his blind side; the one who has something to protect can always be moved.

Respect is something to be earned through the understanding that it is never freely given to anyone, without being returned in some form of exchange of values.