What many clever, extrovert, self-centred men often enjoy is an audience high: that self-sustaining pleasure only produced by titillating the fancy of a select group of participants, preferably enacted whilst standing up to increase the auditory authority of their verbal ejaculations and as a dominance posture––monkeys, one and all!

If you can’t even learn what there is to learn when it’s there to be learnt, you can’t even learn how much of a fool you really are either.

To live life in your own way you’re generally going to have to push people aside, or they’ll generally push you aside first.

Outrageous laughter: that which pins the insignificant tale of the preposterous primate right back on the monkey’s backside where it belongs.

Getting caught is so often so much more interesting than going free, and everyone should try it on for size at least once before he dies, to see how much it suits him.

If someone tells you, “It’s frightening!” it may be so, but that’s not necessarily what is meant by it.

If someone is mildly cynical about wealthy people who own Porches, then he probably doesn’t have one, but if he did he’d prefer a Ferrari.

A true cynic is someone who knows the highly theoretical value of virtue and the purely personal cost of losing it.

Learn to study the intensely studied look on the faces of people around you, and you can look intensely studied as well.

Those who have bubbly, outgoing, friendly personalities have found a way of getting on that works well for them. However, they’re not that way all the time.

Laughing stocks always remain very popular with people, as they give them something to laugh about so often.

You can be attacked just as quickly for something you haven’t done, just as easily as it is to be attacked for something you have done.

There are highly intelligent but devious, deceitful, and manipulative people around who use those close to them to advance their own ends; those who do this best also know that they only live for a short while anyway.

You begin to do things wrong for yourself when you don’t put the required effort into doing what you want to do, but if you don’t know what to do, what then?

Older men who once were young find the extremely stupid actions of young men to be highly amusing, as if they’re simply being amusing they’re doing it wrong.

Old men like to show you pictures of how they looked when they were young, and say: “That’s what I was like when I was your age.” But they’re not are they.

Society is all about people who like or dislike you, once you can appreciate this you can use society for your own advancement, just like everyone else does. But let’s not be nasty about it.

People who don’t care for you much are generally obvious by their countenance: either a smile or a thrown.

Nine out of ten nutcases are shouting that they’re normal when the normal people come to take them away in straightjackets; that’s because, on average, nine out of ten people in society are normal.

Someone you know well who doesn’t choose to be helpful to you when you ask him to be, must then be opposing you in some way mustn’t he? But why then should he want to be helpful to you anyway?

There’s a certain action that occurs when you meet someone; it’s not to do with good manners or with hospitality, as it’s to do with displays of dominance and subservience and boils down to basic instinct.

If you ever see someone you used to know slightly looking at you as if you weren’t there, go and give him a bit of a chat-up, he’ll appreciate it.

Occasionally some bloke might like to come up behind you and give you a bit of a nudge with one of his shoulders, just to see if you’re wet behind the ears or you’re a bit queer or something. He’s not trying to be friendly, but you can always ask: “Why did you do that for?” and, obligingly enough, he’ll tell you.

Infatuation is something funny you can feel when you don’t realize that the object of your most intensely felt desires, simply sees you as some kind of object.

Concentrated intensity is a worthwhile description of human endeavour, which leads to an accurate description of basic human nature.

Life is something exquisitely temporary to be lived best as you live it well, then you can really live it.

Never trust anyone just being nice to you, as it’s what he isn’t thinking is what you’ve got to worry about.

You need a “will to power” to get along in this world or you wilt, dry up and blow away.

Life put under pressure in some ways behaves much like a rubber band would: you try to pull on it and it stretches out, increasing the distance from the two ends until eventually, with the increase in tension, it just snaps on you—just like that!

In society acceptance is the touch mark of your sense of “identity” with it; if you pursue it you have a basis there for your self-esteem and will be numbered among the men who think likewise.

When you’re being ignored you probably won’t realize it unless you accidentally step on someone’s toes, then you’ll know it.

Never ask the man who stands in front of you why he does so, as he might have a good reason.

If you’re sly, slippery as an eel, cunning, sophisticated, suave, handsome is as handsome does, it takes a lot of doing, but if you’re getting what you want you’re doing it right.

If you must court it (whenever you must need to), as a man, at what point do you consider that you achieve acceptance from men who give you the long cold stare?

If you’re odd it may be a long time before you realize that people aren’t going to stop talking about you, as it’s what people do best.

Never turn your back on a stranger who is being open, friendly and helpful, as he may just find that too tempting an opportunity to resist doing something completely natural about it.

Feelings are false, a chimera, a mirage: become a machine and you can do anything you want to, if you really want to.

To be a good conversationalist the trick is to get it out there and keep on going; you may be a right bore, but at least nobody will accuse you of being quiet.

You may be “the quiet type”, as it’s easy enough to be like that, but it isn’t going to get you what you really want from a society of socializing sycophants.

Anger is something that gives righteous indignation something to bite with, although it’s not something to lose control of in case it bites you back.

Those who are hospitable know that hospitality spawns hospitableness amongst groups of hospitable people socializing, but where will it all end?

If you do silly, pathetic things on occasion, do you know why you do them? Or is it just another eccentric hobby taken up to pass the time?

If you always go for your best, then you can become the best cobbler in the world.

Clearly, candour extrapolated produces empathy so as to increase prestige through glamour. But how much of it can we take?

In some ways a cynic only wishes to tell the truth, and if the truth isn’t good enough for you then perhaps a lie will do just as well.

Never be tempted to admit to nothing, neither; nor then ever even be tempted to admit to anything else either, neither.

People are more malleable when they’re unsettled, and manipulated best when they’re more gently pushed out of balance.

Manage to survive saying something quite ridiculous today and you may also be able to use it to question why you did it again tomorrow.

It’s probably always a good idea never become infatuated with someone who isn’t infatuated with you, as it obviously takes up too much time and energy.

Naturally enough, nubile young women will never care much for horny young men who can only introduce themselves with a question mark.

If a woman can be adequately financed she can also be made to sit on her feathered nest, and like it too.

As and when the natural urge to procreate takes them, all nubile young ladies can be real ball-baiters on behalf of the Mother’s Union.

Women have something sexy on their minds besides sex: acceptability. Preferably at someone else’s expense—possibly even yours.

Really, real men in their male-orientated society communicate best by a series of grunts, whistles, clicks, looks, grins, and grimaces called “the code”; which is an essential code for any man, and one that must be learned thoroughly before becoming a “real man” in our male-orientated society.

There are the outsiders, and there are the insiders, and never the twain shall meet in mutual accord.

Direct confrontation must be turned aside so that you can hit the enemy as he blunders past in search of a foe.

There are some very mean-minded buggers about, and they all scratch backs.

People are suspicious of anyone who doesn’t look them in the eyes, as he’s obviously hiding something behind his own.

To lose control of his will is what a man most fears; while for him to do so with his own consent is what he cannot comprehend himself as doing, but he fears it none the less.

Belief in oneself is, of course, personal power, which someone without it would not ever have thought of.

When you try to understand something, also understand there that the capacity to understand it is hidden away, especially from those who cannot try to understand it.

What you intend about something is never enough to affect it; only what you do about it is tangible and real.

Become as callus to strangers as they are as callus to you. That is not to say you need to be nasty about it, just aware of the status quo, as, in this instance, being nasty is counter-productive.

Surprisingly enough, some people who you’d think care about what you think, couldn’t care less, and couldn’t even care enough to tell you so either.

Malicious intent can be subtle when it’s applied to you amid the crowd; to someone interested in opposing you it means: “I’ve set my cap at you!”

It’s a dirty, vicious little existence out there, if you’re a dirty, vicious little bleeder yourself.

If you do attempt to piss down somebody’s neck with impunity, it is advisable to be able to do so from a position of higher authority.

If one day you should see someone just looking delicate in the street, don’t touch him, as he’s close to the edge. But probably no closer than you or I would be on that day, if we’re as unfortunate as he is next.

The really nice thing about thugs is that they’ll always stick together right up to the point where they’re outmatched; then it’s each one for himself and whoever runs fastest isn’t “it!”

Through action to the point the will is sharpened, so that it can better understand the focus of the will of the world about it.

Always pay lip service to the doctrine of mutual aggrandisement, lest we forget the consequences of not back-scratching.

The moment of the con strings you along; but even if you know that you could still go along with it to see where it takes you.

If you really want to live you must act in a manner that reflects the fact that one day it will all be over.

People generally don’t much like to see a successful man succeed too much too often. In an egalitarian society they call it promoting inequality, anywhere else it’s called envy.

In matters of real importance you’ll never find someone of intelligence telling you what he’s really thinking too quickly, as it’s much too important for that sort of trivial response to the realities of the situation before him for him to do that too easily.

That which can be remembered with difficulty, given time, has no more enduring state than that which is forgotten, at last.

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.

You’ll know you’ve been brainwashed when five years later you find yourself holding the same intolerant ideas, as the man who persuaded you into them in the first place.

Take too long to think too much and the moment to act well, as well, just passes swiftly away before your eyes anyway; and probably just as well, too.

Mental hospitals are full of the broken ones; the walking wounded live next door, or up the road a little bit, or even round the bend.

If you give someone something for nothing he comes to expect it, while if you give him nothing but good advice he’ll expect better next time.

You can find that those who just dislike you often can’t define why this is so, but this is simply to do with a certain attitude of people.

Play to the crowd long enough and you may eventually come to suspect that the audience “sucks!”

If you’re disliked you’ll either be attacked or ignored; in either case don’t let it interfere with your aim.

The right man in the right place at the right time can make a difference, but usually not much of one.

The impending lie is that egotistical vice practiced by the potential hypocrite in homage to the pursuit of virtue.

To grasp what you can, now, at the trough, is the main means of inducing most pleasure from what you can get, now, from society.

If you choose to burn your eye-balls out with an arc-light in the full light of day, do be sure you know what you’re doing while you’re about it.

The actions of others must be viewed in the light of their complete selfishness, or else you’ll never see what they get up to behind your back.

Knowing precisely how, roughly when, and where exactly to scratch someone else’s back for your mutual aggrandisement, best makes use of a useful social gesture.

At times there can be something wrong with your face: you can look like that poet who is forever looking into space.