Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

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

You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.