Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.'... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.