Nobody else but you ever cares much about your well-being, simply because nobody else except you has much time to notice it. This then is just one of those interesting facts of life nobody much cares to talk about.

Oddly enough, most men will make an interesting conversational point of men they know of who have limbs missing, or have lost a testicle, or an eye, or have had half their penis worn off in a bicycle accident; they have probably just missed the point.

Even the understanding of ambition is beyond those persons who just think it’s more about something to do with being “too mean to fail” in the push and shove of the crowd, but they’ll never see it.

Get to know how to use the people around you for your own benefit, but above all don’t let them know you are doing it or they will call you a cunt.

Drive, determination, and ambition can be faked by just being vicious, but it won’t get you as far.

With most working men following a trade it’s, “That will do nicely for me,” and that’s it; but you won’t hear them telling anybody else that too often.

You can be told what to do about something, but that doesn’t tell you what you should be doing.

Patience may be a virtue, but it’s not necessary to take it to extremes.

The desire to “do good” is all very well, but if you’re lying to yourself over it it’s a sort of thing that is somehow still sort of wrong.

At the right instant, to betray your friends just takes timing, instinct, determination, devious thinking and, of course, the right incentive, or else you wouldn’t do it. Or would you?

While you are socializing and expecting to be accepted for it, you are also behaving like some aping breed of primate in the monkey house simply waiting to be deceived; while others perceive this of you at your time, and so will gather round to watch what is happening.

Those people you see sometimes walking around with a look to them as if they’ve got a pole somehow stuck up through their backsides that keeps them looking strangely stiff: they all have a very good reason for looking like that.

When you are in a position to be harassed, you can also find out there that there will always be new ways to harass you that you have not taken into account.

Do not simply think that another man’s morality in relation to yours applies simply to other individuals as being objects under its influence, as in reality it applies solely to himself in relation to what may occasionally influence him, including you.

We’re all selling something, but who’s “buying it” from the one who’s selling it?