“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.”

“The Pranksters were now out among them, and it was exhilarating--look at the mothers staring!--and there was going to be holy terror in the land. But there would also be people who would look up out of their work-a-daddy lives in some town, some old guy, somebody's stenographer, and see this bus and register...delight, or just pure open-invitation wonder. Either way, the Intrepid Travelers figured, there was hope for these people. They weren't totally turned off...the citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, nonplused, and would wheel around and start or else try to keep their cool by sidling glances like they weren't going to be impressed by any weird shit--and a few smiled in a frank way as if to say, I am with you--if only I could be with you!”

“The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.”

“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”

“You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.”

“We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening.”