“Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.”

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”

“It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist."-- Dolores Price”

“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”

“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.”

“She preferred to get high on life.”

“When you're the sane brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your hands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the indifference of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap.”