I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.