“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.”

“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they were on show: so many of them seemed to be wearing costumes, not just policemen and firemen and waiters and shop assistants, but people in their going-to-work costumes, their I'm-a-mother-pushing-a-pram costumes, babies and children in outfits that were like costumes; workers digging holes in their costume-bright orange vests; joggers in jogging costume; even the drinkers in the streets and parks, even the beggars, seemed to be wearing costumes, uniforms.”

“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have muchless driving.”

“Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.”

“Life's like a roller coaster till it drops, but what should I scream for? This is my theme park.”

“He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.”