The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.

If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.