On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.