“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”
“Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks”
“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.”
“The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.”
“The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”
“Experiencing Death is like experiencing Life for both are complete within themselves and they both have same effect on the human mind, yet the conditioning makes us love one and fear the other.”