“Unfortunately, the case for equal opportunities, long established inliberal Western society, cuts no ice in the fundamentalist regime ifthe five-year old. There is no God but Mummy, and Daddy is herprophet.”
“Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!”
“I can't be a mummy, I'm a daddy!”
“I'm ninety-five years old. I can have ice cream ten times a day if I want.”
“The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.”
“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”