“Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.”

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.

Strength is an empty shell.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

I’m not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

It’s nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.