“I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.”

“I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.”

“Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.”

“He laughs and turns up the music so that I can hear it in the back. The speakers blast out: ‘Streets like a jungle, so call the police.’‘Call the police,’ I smile, ‘fuck the police’ nodding my head to the beat. The guard turns it up even more.‘Yeah, fuck the police for stitching me up and presenting their dodgy evidence,’ I think to myself. Fuck them for getting me put away for seven instead of the four or five I should have got.A new song comes on and I’m merrily tapping my feet while the guard sings along up front to The Clash. ‘Fighting the nation. Police and thieves in the street, oh yeah…Oh yeah! Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition. Police and thieves in the street. Oh yeah. Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition’.Ha ha. The DJ on the radio is on my side. The Securicor men are on my side. And I’m heading back to civilisation and as many drugs as I can get my hands on. Everything’s going my way. There must be a song about that, too.”

“I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.”

“They’re determined to go some other way, to make their own path, as if such a thing is possible. Problem is that very impulse blinds them to all warnings and wisdom. They think there’s something bigger for them, something that’ll put them out ahead of the rest of us. They won’t acknowledge that everybody is under somebody and the only thing you get to choose is which master you’ll serve and this makes them ripe for the adversary.”

“The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutionsto which you can go without credentials.You don't even need the sticker on your windshieldthat you need to get into the public beach.All you need is the willingness to read.”