“Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.”

“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...”

“To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.”

“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.”

“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”

“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. “The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That’s it.”

“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”