If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

He was a small, bandy-legged man, with a certain resemblance to a chimpanzee who never got invited to tea parties.His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.