employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

It will all end very badly, Gus

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!