Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.