"Call Me Ishmael"
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"Reality is what won't go away when you stop believing in it."
— Philip K. Dick

"I know how you feel.
You don't know if you want to kiss me or hit me.
I get a lot of that."
— Breathless Mahoney

"I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help."
— George Carlin (Brain Droppings)

""Look, Haley's comet!"
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— Philip K. Dick

"'And you know what happened next in my dream? Dick Cheney and I said the same thing at the same time: "Well, we had a Cold War to win." And then I screamed at him: "I KNEW you would say that! You ALWAYS say that!" But then, since Cheney and I made the same remark at the same time, I realized he owed me a Coke. So I said, "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" And Vice-President Dick Cheney smiled sheepishly. *Shudder*... I don't even DRINK coke. I tastes like robot sweat.'"
— David Rees (Get Your War On II)

"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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— Dick Cavett

"I try all things. I achieve what I can."
— Herman Melville

"The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have."
— Philip K. Dick

"in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality."
— Herman Melville

"In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."
— Herman Melville