“Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.”

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”

“If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.”

“Warriors have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The average man acts only if there is the chance for profit. Warriors act not for profit, but for the spirit.”

“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”

“Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.”

“Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.”

“People who object to the by-product hypothesis [for female orgasm] are doing something strange: They're saying that it's hugely important to them that female orgasm turns out to be an adaptation, like vomiting, cobra venom, and the scorpion's stinger, rather than a "mere" cultural invention, like science, medicine, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

“I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”