That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.