Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.