“You’re a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?”
Source: Playing the Player
“Why do men always have such high opinions of their cock?”
Source: Playing the Player
“He’d gone too far. He didn’t usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway.”
Source: Playing the Player
“A ver… ¿qué es lo mío? Supongo que engañar, mentir, sobrevivir. Sí, esto es lo mío, esto es lo que yo sé hacer.”
Source: El retorno de Gryal
“Séamus’s eyebrows, like the antennae of the potato beetle but with a greater sense of grievance, poke forward as he delivers his first utterance of the morning.”
Source: Karna's Wheel
“We stood for a moment, the brackish canal water teething at the stone,the last of the stars fading as the sky transformed from black to indigo. A pair of swans like large white clouds floated on the water, their heads tucked under their wings, as a gondola pulled up, a lantern on the prow, the gondolier on the stern, rubbing his sleepy eyes.”
“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“The trouble is, that this sort of things once it starts, grows.”
Source: The Moving Finger
“Don't be quick to believe the bad things you hear about good people. Everyone has a story left untold.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast