like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.