Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

The law is where reality goes to die.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive