“I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana”

“It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.”

“La révolution n'a pas de coeur, non. C'est une pute à la jupe fendue qui se fait attendre pendant des siècles et qui vous plante là, au moment où vous ommenciez à être excité. Une pute à la jupe fendue, et perverse au point de vous laisser voir tous ses appâts, pour que jamais plus vous ne puissiez les oublier.”

“Nous en avons profité pour discuter de la morale de ce conte: si j'étais prince et que je devais supporter les caprices d'une hystérique capable de détecter un petit pois sous douze matelas, pas sûre que j'aurais envie de l'épouser.”

“The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.”

“And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.”

“Whatever your grievances, I'm sure we can address them without resorting to war," persisted Argyle....Nonsense," said the alien. "Do you know how many laborers and industries we'd put out of work if we were to stop the war just because a few bleeding hearts think we can talk out our grievances?”