There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache drawn on his upper lip. Is that what Hitler is really known for, his health-care plan? To quote Bill Maher, "I haven't seen this many pissed-off old white people since they cancelled 'Murder She Wrote.'"

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.