“Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.”

“Yes, we gave her drugs - we wanted to free her from those sinister clinics up in the hills, from those men in white coats who know best. Bibi needed to soar over our heads, dreaming her amphetamine dreams, coming off the beach in the evening and leading everyone into the cocaine night.”

“Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.”

“Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.”

“The Kingdom of God might be at hand, but that hand was empty.”

“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.”

“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.”