We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.