Question: he who makes a beast of himself book?
Answer: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Quoted in "Anecdotes of the Revd. ... 333, edited by George Birkbeck Hill; also quoted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, in the Avenged Sevenfold song "Bat Country", and in Kingdom S02E04.