“The one who is after the world is going to suffer. Likes and dislikes have a way of breeding themselves — they are more than rabbits, more like amoebas.”

“With our national penchant for viewing the delay or diminution of an unwanted event as its negation, we have taken modifications of Freudianism as proof that Freud was a fool and evidence that the hard tasks he implied need not be undertaken.”

“If your memories of the past are greater than your dreams of the future, you’re already dead.”

“And we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody else tell you any different.”

“Because of their political unity and prospects of empire building, the Iroquois were nicknamed ‘the Red Romans.’ They may have been on their way to controlling a continent at the time the Europeans landed. Power brokers in all the colonial wars, the Iroquois helped shape the North America we see today. Their League of Six Nations has often been considered the model for today’s United States, and thus of democratic unions all over the world. It’s no stretch to suggest that the Iroquois were the most influential Native American political body that has ever been.”