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“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World

“No cop was ever born who isn't a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him... and then we will start apologizing begging for mercy. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to dowhen you're running along about a hundred or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your trail what you want to do then is accelerate.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow

“Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake

“When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.”
― Saturday
― Saturday
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