He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.