they should let some people into the library by prescription only

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.