I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.
No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.