Quotes from book

First Among Sequels

“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”

“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”