'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.