MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.