I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.