"What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring rain on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison scum right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation." Author's Note, pp. 10-11

"A Democratic victory would not change the world, but it would at least slow the berserk white-trash momentum of the bombs-and-Jesus crowd. Those people have had their way long enough. Not even the Book of Revelation threatens a plague of vengeful yahoos." Showdown in the Pig Palace, p. 18

"There are many rooms in the mansion, and weirdness governs in most of them." The Worst People in the World, p. 47

"These things happen. One day you run everything, and...