“Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?”

“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war-lovers with appalling powerful weaponry - who stand unopposed.In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazi's once were.And with good reason.In case you haven't noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound 'em and kill 'em and torture 'em and imprison 'em all we want.Piece of cake.In case you haven't noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class.Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything.Piece of cake.The O'Reilly Factor.So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called "In These Times."Before we attacked Iraq, the majestic "New York Times" guaranteed there were weapons of destruction there.Albert Einstein and Mark Twain gave up on the human race at the end of their lives, even though Twain hadn't even seen the First World War. War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?Like my distinct betters Einstein and Twain, I now give up on people too. I am a veteran of the Second World War and I have to say this is the not the first time I surrendered to a pitiless war machine.My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse."Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations and made it all their own?”

“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”

“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything. ”

“Is this some kind of joke?""That's for me to know and you to find out.""Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit suicide.""Are you about to?""And what if I was?""I wouldn't tell you the gorgeous reasons I have discovered for going on living.""What would you do?""I'd ask you to name the rock-bottom price you'd charge to go on living for just one more week.”

“Thomas Jefferson HighSchool [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one ofthe world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”

“Just 'cause something makes you feel better than anything else, that don't mean it's good for you.”