“When I float weightless back to the surface, I'm imagining I'm becoming someone else. It's probably the decompression.”

“Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.”

“Sometimes we burn and steal and rape and kill and sacrifice, Just to remind ourselves that we're still alive.”

“When you go to power without a base, your demand becomes a request.”

“Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.”

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

“Don't worry about bitin' off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger than you think.”