I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

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

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.