Familiarity seems to breed contempt

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.