Short courses in self-knowledge that take up way too much of your valuable time should also be beaten into you for good measure, then, perhaps, you’ll learn something worthwhile about the practical uses of your time.

Commenting on a man’s “classic primate behaviour” is effectively an un-subtle insult to his manhood, even if it’s true; and that it’s true even if to his eyes it doesn’t happen as you say it does; simply because he’s obviously a man, not a monkey, even if he looks quite like one under the bright light of intense scientific scrutiny.

When someone does amoral, dirty, degrading, even perverted, things it must still suggest that there’s a level of acceptability there that could be lived with by their main victim…but it’s only a suggestion.

Why allow yourself to be dictated to by other people’s approach to you, when you can make your own actions define your wishes for yourself? Would it be that you’d just find the need to react so overbearing that you’ve allowed other people’s wishes to control that too?

There’s no point in playing lip-service to something you don’t believe in, without an audience to appreciate it; but then there’s no point telling an audience you’re just playing lip-service to something you don’t believe in, as they’d quite happily “tear your head off” over it, just for being cheeky.

It is appropriate for the common man to know and come to appreciate the simple fact that, when he is caught in an inescapable trap, then as a result of it he will also be left there to die.

Always step back quickly from someone who over-reacts overly much, as you’ll see everybody else nearby do so twice as fast as anyone else who hesitates to do so…

Every once in a while someone comes along who looks at things in a slightly different way from the way others do, they either kill him, lock him up, or, maybe, even give him a medal to “fit the mould”.

You either conform or die, but if you know this and also conform as well then occasionally, and with a little perseverance, you may still be able to “fuck their brains out!”

Most people will develop ideas about other people that are completely unfounded, but they do enjoy having them anyway.

Friendliness for its own sake is no reason to be friendly; however, if not taken too far, it’s a good start for developing a standpoint of mutual aggrandizement between apparent equals.

“A truck!” usually hits people who know how it is and know where they stand when they’re not looking.

The place you no longer live your life is always just around the next corner.

Whether you live or die doesn’t matter; what you do or don’t do, nobody cares one jot. This is true in the first instance, before anything else.

You don’t have to choose stupidity as a career choice: sometimes it can come up to you and take hold without your even noticing that you had a moment of choice.

What you want to know is, “Why do people do certain things in certain situations?” Never guess, always know.

Maybe “for someone to be happy it is necessary for others not to be all the time,” but it is still quite hard to prove except by holding up the whole of human experience to date as a specific example of it.