“Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.”

“Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.”

“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.”

“Death demands your attention. It requires you to think your unthinkable. It insists that you go to your dark places, those places you have so carefully learned to avoid all your life. You are pushed far beyond what you ever imagined to be your limits. You must accept your unacceptable.”

“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”

“Cleaning requires an attention to detail and a concern for the superficial that women are both pressured to internalize and then despised for possessing.”