“It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.”

“I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.”

“The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.”

“For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote:I give you the world.Have fun blowing it up.”

“Time is only linear for engineers and referees.”

“WHITE AMERICANS HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL SENSE OF HISTORY. They make it up as they go along, constantly revising to suit their tastes in a manner that would make Stalin blush. Very few of them saw any irony in the fact that during a recent nasty Balkans conflict, when Uncle Sam intervened to stop the Serbs from ethnically cleansing the Bosnians, the military action was performed using Apache helicopter gunships. Helicopters named after a people that had been ethnically cleansedin the United States less than one hundred years previously. Sixteen lane highways across the sacred burial grounds. Yee-hah.”

“After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.”