"Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity."

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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

— Martin Amis