I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

There are worse prisons than words.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.