War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)