[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy. - Martin Amis

Saddam's hands-on years in the dungeons distinguish him from the other great dictators of the 20th century, none of whom had much taste for "the wet stuff". The mores of his regime have been shaped by this taste for the wet stuff — by a fascinated negative intimacy with the human body, and a connoisseurship of human pain.

If you can fight, you don’t have to fight. And you don’t have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.