Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a…

“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brustalising their fellows, and corrupted souls by every means.…

— Comte de Lautréamont

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Want to pick up that check, honey? And I’d say; Nope, why don’t you pick up that check and add another fifty bucks while…

— Graham Parke

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then…

— R.L. LaFevers

“God: Check out this human I designed. Angel: Wow, that looks pretty incredible. How does it work? God: It's pretty complicated. Point to something…

— Simon Rich

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day,…

— Alber Elbaz

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk…

— Roger Waters

“let’s face it, as great a proportion of the dead are arseholes as the living.”

— Nick Harkaway

“I’d like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that ‘Water is best absorbed by the body…

— Ben Goldacre

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

— Haruki Murakami

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master…

— Ingmar Bergman

“She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory. Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be…

— Irvine Welsh

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context)…

— Nick Hornby

“Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [...] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something”

— John le Carré