Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Life is, of course, terrible.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.