Category: Engaging the Culture

“Money in politics was not necessarily corrupting. However, other people’s money in other people’s causes was most definitely corrupting, and was a corruption not to be tolerated”

Ecochondriacs, p. 159

“And since that time, the three of them had enjoyed the kind of life that an oriental despot might envy. Peeled grapes, tapestried barges on the Nile, a long line of nubile activists, the lot”

Ecochondriacs, p. 158

“He had only been a true believer for a couple of years at the beginning because he had been intelligent enough to figure out what was going on with the numbers. But by the time he figured it out completely, he was already floating on an inner tube down a lazy river of cash grants, and he realized that if he told the world what he now knew, that lazy river of cash grants would go flow somewhere else”

Ecochondriacs, p. 157

“His slip was starting to show, which meant that his slips were starting to show”

Ecochondriacs, p. 157

“But he also had been around long enough to know that he ought to get some other things set in motion regardless. Or irregardless. He was never sure.”

Ecochondriacs, p. 155

“On the right side was an armchair in which sat one Rocco Williamson, a man who appeared to be about as pleased as a hen with twelve chicks.”

Ecochondriacs, p. 151

“Maybe Del Martin wouldn’t want to immolate himself on national television. That was certainly possible. Not everyone can avoid being a sissy”

Ecochondriacs, p. 145