— My birthday's coming up. What are you going to get me?
— A dictionary, so you can look up the definition of "selfish."
You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. Still, there are certain temperaments that marriage makes more complex. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organised, and to be highly organised is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides, every experience is of value, and, whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.
You have to take care of yourself. No one will do that for you, will they?
No woman can compete with Benny's love for himself.
But now instead there’s all this talk of democracy. You hear it whenever people want to be selfish, whenever they want to forget obligations.
I mean, God, it's the end of the world and I'm still 15 minutes late. I can hear my father say it now. I can hear him say, "Flaky and irresponsible," and he's right. How could I do this? I put my energy in the wrong places, I give my time to the wrong people. I mean, when I think of all the... All the holidays I didn't
spend with my mum and dad to be with some guy I used to know.
Have you ever been for sale?
When your isms get smart
Oh so selfish and mindless
With that comment in your eye
Do you think that you are hard?
You only live to serve yourself,
Come crawling back when you need help.