Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.