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.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.