The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.