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

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

We have truth in order not to die of art.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses