Who said “There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an…”?

“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”

“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”

“Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)”

“It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.”

“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”

“Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.”

“Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.”

“What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.”

“The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.”

“Genius is childhood recaptured.”