“Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.”

“There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.”

“It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.”

“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?”

“Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.”

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”

“I'm nobodyI'm a tramp, a bum, a hoboI'm a boxcar and a jug of wineAnd a straight razor ...if you get too close to me”