The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. At the edge of perception, weird things dance and howl.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.