The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.