“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”

“Lie through your teeth and call it a novel. All will be well.”

“Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?”

“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”

“This thing called Contrmporary America--and its obsession with televisions, game systems, and computers_has gone a littlr far if you ask me. Some call it the Information Age, but I'd tend to say it's more the Sitting-on-one's-butt-and-letting-other-people-do-the-thinking-for-you Age.”

“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

“So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?”