A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.