The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

Nice, nice, very nice.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.