HOCUS POCUS quotes:

A society that doesn't want to know the truth about itself. It thrives its people on Hocus Pocus, where the education it gains is paramount and everything it does is good, when in reality, it's not.

The book is about nationalistic self-deception. Where there are no wrongs and WE are great, and anyone who says different is branded a criminal. In this type of society, there is an internal "take over" of external forces where society no longer sees the harm it does to itself by allowing itself to self-destruct and implode.

"Now there's a subject for Donahue: people who have eaten people. People who can eat people are the luckiest people in the world."

"I think any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever the poeple who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today."

"One man told me that literacy made it a lot more fun for him to masturbate."

"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise."

"I heard Harley III barking orders at the diggers, telling them to dig deeper and make the sides straighter and so on. I had seen leadership of such high order exercised in Vietnam, and I myself had exhibited it from time to time, so I am quite certain that Harley III had taken some sort of amphetamine."