“There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.”

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”

“Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.”

“Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.”

“I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.”

“It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.”

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHORperG.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”