"Politics has, like, jacked itself up to my level of weirdness.
I can work with this. I like the sheer sort of neo-Stalinist
denial of reality. That's what makes it work. It's interesting.
I'd like to see it get less interesting. But I don't know that it
necessarily will." -- science fiction / cyberpunk author William
Gibson, as quoted in
"Through the Looking Glass" by Joel Garreau in the Washington
Post, 2007-09-06
(thanks to
skreidle
for pointing out the interview)