“When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil, the public soul of this country has changed forever, and professional sports is only a serenade for the death of the American dream. Mahalo.”

“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”

“Anybody," said Johnny, carried away by his personal dream of Democracy, "can ride in one of the hansom cabs, provided," he qualified, "they get the money. So you can see what a free country we got here.""What's free about it if you have to pay?" asked Francie."It's free in this way: If you have the money you're allowed to ride in them no matter who you are. In the old countries, certain people aren't free to ride in them, even if they have the money.”

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

“If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”

“Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.”