“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“I’ve done peyote in Real de Catorce, Mexico, in a cage with a mountain lion. I’ve had seventy-eight stitches sewn into my forehead, by a veterinarian. I’ve had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I’ve bongoed naked until the cops arrested me.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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